Cozy Comedy

Isn’t the boy next door supposed to be clean cut? Super sweet? And all-around nice? Well, I’m not so sure about any of that now… Because my new neighbor is in a category all his own! I’ve always wanted to play with the big boys. I’m as ambitious as they come. Someday I’m going to be a top chef, and I’ve got a good start here in Cherry Valley, heading up the first big restaurant in this small town. I’m actually so focused on heating up my career that I don’t even have time for the guy who just moved in next door. I barely notice how cute and sexy he is with tousled sandy ...

Planning for a rainy day has never been Val’s forte. But when a storm brews up right in her own backyard, Val’s forced to get off her lounge chair and spring into action. A shady, ham-fisted developer’s threatening to knock down Val’s favorite beach haunt, along with all the precious memories held within its shabby walls. With the owner’s signature on the bill of sale, the plan seems like a done deal. Or is it? Something fishy is going on at the beach, and it’s going to take all the wits Val can muster to put a pig-headed developer out to pasture.

LA shoe designer Maddie Springer lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos to murder. And things only get worse when her boyfriend disappears - along with $20 million in embezzled funds - and her every move is suddenly under scrutiny by the LAPD's sexiest cop. With the help of her post-menopausal bridezilla of a mother, a 300-pound psychic, and one seriously oversexed best friend, Maddie finds herself stepping out of her stilettos and onto the trail of a murderer.

Callie Ranger is back and she’s about to face her toughest case yet. It was supposed to be easy. She came to Shady Grove to save a man she saw in her vision, but as soon as she enters the town, something feels different. Shady Grove is unlike any other town she’s ever stepped foot into. A town in which she no longer gets any psychic visions. But there’s something more sinister bubbling under the surface, and the whole town just might be in on it. Who killed the man in her vision? Why can’t she have any visions while in town? And why is the local law enforcement hellbent on keeping ...

Who Killed Marjie Cabbage? Millie Culpepper is a big, beautiful woman with a voice to die for. But having been betrayed by her lover, she walked away from her band and came back to town nursing a broken heart. She spends her days working in Bernie’s Bazaar, selling a weird selection of pre-loved items, and her evenings enjoying comfort food. Then, Hawksley’s resident busybody Marjorie Cribbage-Hobbes is found murdered and Millie’s employer and friend is the prime suspect. Determined to clear Bernie’s name, Millie begins her own investigation and discovers that Marjorie made a lot of...

I’m being forced to move in with my brother’s best friend. After my life falls apart, the last person I want to face is my childhood crush. Much less live with him. Unfortunately for me, my overprotective brother and his equally overprotective best friend show up on my doorstep and don’t take no for an answer. I put up my best fight, but it’s no use. Soon enough, I’m boarding a plane with them and my newborn son.

An Amazon Kindle “TOP NEW RELEASE”… Readers say: “Loved this story!” “These mysteries are extremely enjoyable and hilarious…” “A delightful bit of fun!”—Reviewer NEW from the author of A Cozy Beatles Mystery Series comes an exciting series: Bonnie Writes The Beatles! Book 1 in a clean cozy series set in 1964, starting in Hamburg. **A journalist on her first story, a rocking British band…and a heist-filled holiday mystery to solve…** Meet Bonnie Bell, an aspiring journalist on her first big adventure—a holiday in 1962 Hamburg with her father. But when they stumble...

"Loved it! The two main characters are simply in love with each other. And even though he pushes her away she won’t give up on him. I thought this book was unique in that they were already married. [...] I would definitely recommend this read." -ARC review Welcome to Fox Valley, New Hampshire, where a moody lumberjack husband and his curvy estranged wife are a match made in the mountains. Alton I’ve been a dick. My wife deserves better than the way I’ve treated her. When tragedy struck in the lumberyard, I shouldn’t have left her at home to pick up the pieces by herself. I ...

¿Qué pasaría si pudieras saber exactamente lo que tus amigos están pensando? Winter Reynolds, una estudiante de secundaria, puede hacerlo, pero hay un inconveniente... Solo puede leer los pensamientos de las personas cuando los besa. Cuando un miembro del equipo de atletismo es asesinado, Winter tiene la oportunidad de usar su habilidad especial para encontrar al asesino. El problema es que besar a todos en el equipo de atletismo no es tan buena idea cuando tienes un nuevo novio. ¡Hablando de complicaciones! ¿Debería Winter perseverar en usar su poder secreto para atrapar al asesino ...

Miss Julia has promised her husband, Sam, to mind her own business. What a relief! She doesn't have to spring into action when a dead body is found in a toolshed six blocks from her house. Instead, she can concentrate on what's really important-like figuring out who's been passing bad checks in her name and, most important, preparing for Hazel Marie's impending due date. Then again, who else can figure out why that awful Thurlow Jones is trying to cast suspicion on someone Miss Julia feels certain is innocent? And, after all, what Sam doesn't know won't hurt him, right?

In the genteel depths of Southern society—where gossip is currency, calamity wears lace gloves, and bourbon flows before brunch—Colonel Cedric Beauregard Fitzhugh the Third stumbles through a trilogy of misadventures. From scandalous garden brunches and matchmaking misfires to a murder-mystery club’s deadly encounter (and one goat with political aspirations), chaos simmers beneath the genteel surface. Standing as the last bastion of order is Arora Palindrome, his razor-sharp majordomo armed with cold ceviche, a clipboard, and a plan for every catastrophe. With biting wit, bourbon-...

Did someone really kill Grandma or am I and my merry band of geriatric 'detectives' imagining things? Grandma's knitting group of Jessica Fletcher wannabes are convinced Grandma's death wasn't natural. Something to do with knitting needle placement? No idea what they're talking about. The police think the old ladies are senile. I don't necessarily disagree, but I'm always up for a bit of excitement as long as it doesn't lead to a night in jail. But someone is not happy with our snooping around, which only spurs us on to snoop more. Things are starting to heat up in our little town. Will we ...

Although it is autumn in the small English town of Bishop’s Lacey, the chapel is decked with exotic flowers. Yes, Flavia de Luce’s sister, Ophelia, is at last getting hitched, like a mule to a wagon. “A church is a wonderful place for a wedding”, muses Flavia, “surrounded as it is by the legions of the dead, whose listening bones bear silent witness to every promise made at the altar.”

It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia, into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grandfather is opening a new 'Creatures of the Night' exhibit in the zoo. When a real body at the zoo and a suspicious fire at the Haunted House threaten to mar the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg Langslow to save Halloween.

I should've married my childhood best friend, but I chose another man. Now I'm a single mom, back in my hometown, trying to make ends meet, and my ex-bestie is my new boss. The moment our eyes meet, I know I'm the last woman on earth Nash McCreedy wants to see. Now we're forced to work together and face old memories I've avoided for years. Everywhere I look, he's there, and it doesn't help that he's the only man I've ever loved. I ignore him and the bubbling feelings for as long as I can, but fail.

From the best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments - one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. Roz, Charis, and Tony - university classmates decades ago - were reunited at Zenia’s funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives.

After being duped out of her life savings in Germany, Val Fremden retreats home to Florida with more than just her pride in tatters. Broke, jobless, divorced, and forty-five, she knows starting over won’t be easy. But when her only friend suddenly turns up dead, Val begins to wonder if the world is out to get her.

Meg Langslow is spending the summer at the Biscuit Mountain Craft Center, helping her grandmother Cordelia run the studios. But someone is committing acts of vandalism, which threaten to ruin the newly opened center's reputation.

With a cheating boyfriend, a thankless career in waitressing, and her BA in English going to waste, Mira James jumps at the chance for a fresh start in rural Battle Lake, Minnesota. Right away she lands a job as a librarian, snags another as an on-call reporter for the weekly newspaper, and is swept off her feet by Jeff Wilson, a handsome archaeologist unearthing the town’s storied history. Moving here might be the best decision Mira’s ever made. Until she finds Jeff’s body between the library’s reference stacks.

One hot night with a bearded bartender. Two pink lines. And a glow-in-the-dark Easter egg hunt that might just break me. I moved back to my hometown, a retired model with zero life plan. I definitely didn’t expect to end up pregnant after a no-strings night with a bartender with sinfully skilled hands. Now I’m navigating pregnancy hormones, our small town Matchmaking Brigade convinced we’re “destined,” and a flannel-wrapped man who’s weirdly excited about diaper duty. I left me glamorous life behind to escape the chaos. Not to fall for a small town guy who brings me pickles at ...